OBIT: Darlene Roth former employee during Bennett vs. Southern Pacific Transportation
The Work of God: St. Paul's Commons, Walnut Creek
Todd Cambra banned from Trinity Center froze to death, then John Dullich lost his life the same way the next day and Rhonda found murdered in Las Trampas Creek. Back in 2009, Adam Milford was found just in San Ramon creek in front of Los Lomas High School and just down the road on Creekside was former Starbucks employee who finished his cosmetology training was splitting time between Starbucks and Salon Amore.
and mine was July 20th but wait there is more - we get free lunches served in Walnut Creek every Monday Civic Park Walnut Creek near the senior center. It's amazing as our other friend was murdered, and at least five others
are have been hit by cars. No one is listening and sooner or later will be killed in a hit and run, Marcus B. and Todd C. are in long term care and John Newman on March 30th 2012, Glen Davis Clayton Road Concord
Stephanie Marti...
on Tue, 2018-05-01 16:32
The Miscues and the Murder of Officer Lester Garnier
I landed here in Walnut Creek, at St. Paul’s , in November of 2016 for my fourth residenin the six years that I’ve lived in Northern California. I always enjoy moving around and meeting new folks
and being some small part of the beautiful tapestry called the Diocese of California. Since I was already living in the East Bay, I had some ideas about what was happening at St. Paul’s. I did not, however, realize just how big and how amazing the work of St. Paul’s was.
I am, and I continue to be, blown away by the sheer courage and dedication of this community and what it is that they are accomplishing. St. Paul’s is quietly, and with considerable perseverance, doing the work of God for the people of God, and the story of this work is remarkable.
In a nutshell, St. Paul’s is tearing down two old existing buildings on its property and building St. Paul’s Commons , a four-story facility that will house 45 units of affordable housing and provide new space for Trinity Center’s homeless ministries and meeting spaces for the parish and neighborhood.
The project was the joint brainchild of the Rev. Sylvia Vasquez and Donna Colombo, who is the current director of
Trinity Center . To help make their dream a reality, they enlisted the help of a small group of energetic and inexhaustible folks: Charles Couch, Jennifer Machado, Molly
Clopp, Richard Kemink, Dave Mattern and Julie Layne. Despite their each having full lives outside this ministry, they have been working tirelessly with the developer, Resources for Community Development (RCD)
Though it would be easy to get lost in the details of the history of project and all excellent work involved, I want to focus here on one particular example of change and blessing by lifting up the work Trinity Center Director
Donna Colombo. Donna has changed minds in the city of Walnut Creek and, in the process, changed both the lives of its homeless residents and the people who work to help them. St. Paul's Commons will include 45 units of supportive
housing and space for Trinity Center's homeless program.
My first encounter with Donna has marked my memory and my heart with a passion, an energy, and an example of a dogged determination that I don’t often see. When Donna was asked to take over the ministry “next door” that morphed from its beginnings as
Fresh Start into Trinity Center, I am sure that she could not have predicted the journey that was to come or the place that she now finds herself in. I think I began to understand the hard work of this process when I attended
the Walnut Creek meeting of the city planning commission.
As I sat through this lengthy meeting, I heard voices of fear, anger, disappointment, and ignorance. But there were also voices of hope. In fact, supporters of Trinity Center’s much-needed temporary move to another location attended
in overwhelming numbers. Not only had the people of St. Paul’s come out in force, the greater community of church and charitable organizations were also a strong and visible presence.
When I began to investigate some of the back story of this remarkable showing of support, I quickly discovered that the hearts and minds of both political and business members in Walnut Creek had been radically changed through the constant and dedicated work of Donna Colombo and Trinity Center. To a person, the members of the city planning commission voiced absolute support of the mission of Trinity Center and the benefit that this little ministry on Trinity Avenue had been able to provide for Walnut Creek, a city bursting at the seams with growth.
The importance of the hearings with the city planning commission
and then the city council was because the physical location for
Trinity Center Ministries would have to be moved out of their
old buildings at St. Paul’s. In order for the project of St. Paul’s Commons to proceed, these
buildings had to go. What would Trinity Center do? Where would
they go? How could they continue to serve the most vulnerable if
the center itself were homeless too!
Some of the more angry voices in the city meetings had hoped
that the location selected as the temporary site would be
denied. The level of fear and ignorance about the homeless was
jaw-droppingly painful to listen to, but, patiently, the city council listened to each member of the community who
needed to speak and hoped to be heard. Patiently as well, Donna
and members of the Trinity Board stood and responded; they spoke
in understanding, love, and compassion
for all the fear, for all the anxiety, and for all the urgent
needs.
When the council entered into its own open deliberations, the reflections offered by each member were consistent and could be summarized this way:
who, just a few short years ago, wouldn’t even admit that Walnut Creek had homeless people.
The council members noted that, with Donna’s persistence and dogged determination, the business community of Walnut Creek has rallied to address realistically and head-on the issue of homelessness downtown. With the help of Donna and the work of Trinity
Center, Walnut Creek is able to own its responsibility to those who live on the streets now or who are minutes away from being homeless.
Each member stated clearly that denying Trinity Center its application for this temporary move would be a brutal set-back to efforts to address homelessness and the Bay Area’s housing crisis.
Trinity Center’s request
passed unanimously
.
For more information on how to
support Trinity Center and St.
Paul's Commons, please click
here
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The Locust Street Murders ~ Margaret Lesher and the Lesher Center @ Civic Drive / Locust Street
Threading the Locust Street Murders to Margaret Lesher
There is pattern in Walnut Creek decades in the making as incidents you can feel the truth weeping out.The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammel Crow, Lennar, Catellus, Lesher Communications, KnightRidder, Gannett and other outlets may be surprised by what I've found via research.
My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989. It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified
Pete Bennett Walnut Creek heard the Gunshot while sitting at Peets Coffee on Locust Street - He said to himself helping Walnut Creek only gets people killed
Connecting The Unions to the Shootings
The Dubious Phone Call and Time Wasting Project
The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammell Crow, Lennar, Catellus.My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989. It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.
TPG Capital Buys Catellus Assets for $505M
TPG Capital Buys Catellus Assets for $505M
ProLogis (NYSE: PLD), the leading global provider of distribution facilities, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with affiliates of TPG Capital (TPG) to sell a portfolio of U.S. retail and mixed-use assets and the Catellus name for a total purchase price of approximately $505 million.
ProLogis is the leading global provider of distribution facilities, with more than 475 million square feet of industrial space owned and managed (44 million square meters) in markets across North America, Europe and Asia. The company leases its industrial facilities to more than 4,400 customers, including manufacturers, retailers, transportation companies, third-party logistics providers and other enterprises with large-scale distribution needs. For additional information about the company, go to www.prologis.com.
TPG Capital is the global buyout group of TPG, a leading private investment firm founded in 1992, with more than $48 billion of assets under management and offices in San Francisco, Beijing, Fort Worth, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo. TPG Capital has extensive experience with global public and private investments executed through leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts, growth investments, joint ventures and restructurings. TPG seeks to invest in world-class franchises across a range of industries. Real estate-intensive businesses constitute a core area of investment focus and expertise for TPG, including ST Residential (a $4.5 billion portfolio of mortgage loans and REO assets previously owned by Corus bank), Harrah’s Entertainment, Fairmont Raffles Hotels International , Neiman Marcus, ParkwayLife REIT, PETCO and Surgical Care Affiliates
YVONNE ELDRIDGE Munchausen syndrome by proxy and once again Judge Peter Spinetta
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